PRESIDENT BUSH: Your Majesty, welcome back. We have just had a
wide-ranging and fruitful discussion about the Middle East. I want to
thank you very much for your vision of a peaceful world, one in which
people are able to practice their religion freely and one in which women
are empowered. Your Majesty is a leader and the United States of
America respects his leadership a lot.

One of the things I asked His Majesty to do was to go to visit with
Prime Minister Sharon and President Abbas, to help in the peace process
there, and he's graciously agreed to go. I want to thank you, sir, for
taking a leadership role; it will be very helpful to have your voice of
reason there to talk to both leaders.

Relations between Jordan and America are strong and important and vital.
And, again, I want to welcome you and thank you very much for your
advice and counsel on a lot of different subjects.

KING ABDULLAH: Thank you, Mr. President; always a pleasure to be back.
And thank you very much for always the kind support that you've given me
and all Jordanians.

As you said so, we've had some very fruitful discussions on the peace
process and Iraq. And I want to thank you again for the support that we
have gotten from you for so many years on giving hope to Israelis and
Palestinians. And I know that you want to find a solution that Israelis
and Palestinians can meet in peace and harmony and I hope that if we can
help in that respect, that is a great honor for us.